ORRIN WANG, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, received a B.A. in Literature and Religion from Reed College and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Chicago. His articles include “Romantic Sobriety,” MLQ; "Romancing the Counter-Public Sphere: A Response to Romanticism and Its Publics," Studies in Romanticism; "The Politics of Aphasia in Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides," Criticism; "Their Other Reasons: Female Alterity and Enlightenment Discourse in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women," The Yale Journal of Criticism; "Disfiguring Monuments: History in Paul de Man's 'Shelley Disfigured' and Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'The Triumph of Life'," ELH; "Allegories of Praxis: The Reading of Romanticism and Fascism in A. O. Lovejoy and Leo Spitzer,"  Clio; and "The Ideology of Vice: Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll in the TV Market," Jump Cut. His book, Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory, is published with Johns Hopkins University Press (1996). His interests include postmodern theory (especially deconstruction, Marxism, and post-Marxism) and British and American Romanticism. He is currently  Series Editor for Romantic Praxis, a series of critical writing for the website Romantic Circles.

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